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Track(s) taken from CDA66250

Versa est in luctum

composer
Officium defunctorum ad matutinum, 1605
author of text
Job; Office of the Dead

Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill (conductor)
Recording details: January 1987
Westminster Cathedral, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: August 1987
Total duration: 5 minutes 22 seconds

Cover artwork: Detail from the title page of the 1605 edition of Victoria's Requiem.
 

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To accompany his six-voice Requiem for the Empress Maria, Victoria composed a matching funeral motet. Its solemn words come from the biblical book of Job.

from notes by John Milsom © 2013

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